Word: covered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been exceptionally pleased with your paper in school work and intend to use at least 150 copies next year. The children are always eager to get the paper and study it through from cover to cover with far more enthusiasm than they ever did some of the older current event papers...
...this modern hive of macaroni workers who dwell unconcerned above the buried ruins of Herculaneum, perhaps to be described as "the Newport of Imperial Rome." The city was obliterated by the same eruption of Vesuvius which engulfed Pompeii (1,848 years ago). Thirty feet of rock-hard lava cover the palaces of Herculaneum; but with the coming of His Majesty last week, rock drills began to purr and chatter...
...technical informs us that the new edition "smells"--though the olfactory impression he adds is sweet if not strange. The present Board has been thorough but not especially ingenious in the matter of content and execution, and the result is--just another Red Book with 1930 on the cover. This is in itself in no way a condemnation of the incumbent Board of the Red Book. By its very nature the Red Book has no continuity of personel from year to year. Each group of editors takes up the burden anew with little to guide it but a regiment...
Premier Baldwin's brief speech to the House of Commons on Tuesday left little doubt as to whether Britain or Soviet Russia had committed the breach of confidence. A police raid on Soviet House in London secured conclusive evidence that the Russian trade officials, under cover of commercial activities, had used their facilities as a center for the Red International, that vaguely sinister organization devoted to military espionage and subversive activities throughout the Empire, and North and South America as well. Communist agitators were trained on ships of the Russian trading companies with a view to subsequent service on British...
...sterilization was never justifiable, that Miss Buck was being discriminated against since many a feeble-minded woman not under state care was continuing to propagate the species without molestation. With only Justice Pierce Butler dissenting, the Supreme Court ruled that the principle sustaining compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. It affirmed the state's right to call upon defectives for "sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned"; said the operation involved no "serious" pain or "substantial" danger. Concerning "discrimination," the Supreme Court said that the law could not be criticized...